[WikiEN-l] Interwiki links for the Icelandic decade articles.

Tue Nov 23 11:20:17 UTC 2004

James D. Forrester wrote:
> On Mon, 22nd November 2004, at 19:34, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
> <avarab at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Similarly, the "twentieth century" begins in 1901 and ends in
> > 2000, unlike the English twentieth century which begins in 1900 and
> > ends in 1999.
> 
> Umm. Actually, this is oft a point of confusion; although decades do, indeed
> start in xyz0 and continued until xyz9, centuries, millenia, and longer
> periods of time start from xy01 and continue to x(y+1)00. Hence the
> beginning of this millennium was on the 1st of January 200*1*, although the
> first decade primarily within said millennium had started the year
> beforehand, and the end thereof is to be the 31st of December 3000, not
> 2999.

To make it more confusing: in the Dutch meaning of the word, the first
decade of this millenium lasted from January 1, 2001 to January 10, 2001
(inclusive) :-)

nearly-all-Dutch-people-do-it-wrong-ly - y'rs Gerrit

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